News tagged with microscopic spectroscopy

Researchers show that gold doping increases nickel catalyst activity for carbon nanostructure formation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the CNST and Arizona State University have demonstrated that the overall catalytic activity of nickel particles for the formation of carbon nanostructures is improved by the addition of a ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Raman nanoparticle-aided imaging of tumors moves closer to human trials

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2008, a team of investigators at Stanford University's Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence demonstrated that they could use a technique known as nanoparticle-aided Raman spectroscopy to look at ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Capturing the fugitive... in art

(PhysOrg.com) -- What do Winslow Homer's For to Be a Farmer's Boy (1887) and Vincent van Gogh's The Bedroom (1889) have in common?

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanostructure of 5,000-year-old mummy skin reveals insight into mummification process

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using cutting-edge microscopy techniques, researchers have gained insight into how human mummies can be extremely well-preserved for thousands of years. A team of scientists from Germany and ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 20, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers create 3-D invisibility cloak: study

European researchers have taken the world a step closer to fictional wizard Harry Potter's invisibility cape after they made an object disappear using a three-dimensional "cloak", a study published Thursday in the US-based ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 6

Nanoscopic changes to pancreatic cells reveal cancer

A team of researchers in Chicago has developed a way to examine cell biopsies and detect never-before-seen signs of early-stage pancreatic cancer, according to a new paper in the Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters. Though ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Watching Catalytic Reactions from Within

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Utrecht University, in The Netherlands, have demonstrated a new way to get a real-time, microscopic view of the inner workings of catalytic reactions.

Chemistry /

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0